(A) Projection into required yards. Certain architectural features may project into required yards as follows.
(1) Cornices, canopies, eaves or other similar architectural features may project into required yards not more than two feet.
(2) Bay windows, balconies, fireplaces, fire escapes and chimneys may project three feet, six inches provided that such features do not occupy, in the aggregate, more than one-third of the length of the building wall on which they are located.
(B) Walls and fences. Walls and fences are permitted in yards, except front yards in R-Zones, subject to the visibility requirements in division (I) below.
(C) Front yards for corner lots. A front yard of the required depth shall be provided on one of the two frontages and a second front yard shall be provided on the other frontage; provided that, in any R-Zone, the second front yard need be only 50% of the required depth for front yards in that zone.
(D) Minimum side yard width. Where a side yard to a principal building is provided, although not required by this chapter, it shall not be less than six feet in width unless it abuts a street or alley.
(E) Dwelling over other permitted uses. The horizontal distance between the rear lot line and the rear wall of a dwelling unit on any floor of the building shall be not less than 25 feet.
(F) Required yard applies to one building only. No part of a yard or other open space or off-street parking or loading space required for or in connection with any building for the purpose of complying with this chapter shall be included as part of a yard, open space or off-street parking or loading space similarly required for any other building.
(G) No reduction of yard dimensions. No yard existing at the time of passage of this chapter shall be reduced in dimension below the minimum requirements set forth in § 165.023 of this chapter.
(H) Vacation of public ways. Whenever any street, alley or other public way is vacated in the manner authorized by law, the zone adjoining each side of such street, alley or public way shall be automatically extended to the center of such vacation and all areas included in the vacation shall then and henceforth be subject to all regulations of the extended zone.
(I) Visibility at intersection. On any corner lot nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as materially to impede vision between a height of two and one-half and ten feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street lines of such corner lot.
(J) Limited number of buildings. There shall be no more than one principal dwelling and two accessory structures, including a private garage, on each lot in any R-Zone except as provided in § 165.033 of this chapter.
(K) Deposit of wastes. No materials or wastes shall be deposited on any premises in such form or manner that they may be transferred off such premises by natural cause or forces. All materials or wastes which might cause fumes or dust or which constitute a fire hazard or which may be edible by or otherwise be attractive to rodents, insects or animals shall be stored outdoors only in closed containers.
(L) Access to service stations, garages and parking areas. No automobile service station, public garage or commercial parking areas of garages for 25 or more motor vehicles shall have an entrance or exit for vehicles within 200 feet along the same side of a street on which is located a school, playground, place of worship, hospital, library or institution for dependents or for children, except where such property is in another block or on another street on which the lot does not abut.
(Prior Code, § 166.034) (Ord. 2151, passed 6-28-1971)